Word: turnabout
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...abrupt turnabout. The week before, Rockefeller had dictated settlement terms already rejected by city hall through the extraordinary device of proposing that the state temporarily take over the sanitation department. That seemed to leave his fellow Republican, Mayor John Lindsay, no option except surrender. Lindsay had the choice of signing a contract he had already described as a "little bit of blackmail" or watching the state move in and fulfill the same terms with city funds...
...guerrilla doctrine of warfare. One of his maxims is to fight only when the odds are overwhelmingly in his favor and success is certain, a precept that his troops violated nearly everywhere they struck in the course of his general offensive last week. What lies behind Giap's turnabout, which in its sanction of attacks on cities and towns constitutes the most important change of tactics by either side...
...This turnabout in attitude stems from the ubiquity of the guides. "When I was in college, you had to hide in the toilet to read those things," recalls Jane Ferrar, wife of a Columbia English instructor, and a freelance writer of trots under the nom de plume of Jane Wexford. But students now carry them everywhere, college bookstores display them, and 15 million are sold annually. "As long as students will use study guides," argues Beebe now, "we may as well do our best to make sure that they are using good guides that are carefully prepared, accurate and thorough...
...attitude toward the Saigon regime before peace talks can even begin, much less mean anything. This will be a difficult political task for Lyndon Johnson. In the past year, U.S. officials showered such praise on the Saigon government's elections and so fervently coddled the hawkish victors that any turnabout now would look like a jarring change...
...would permit the use of "progressive" ideas, even if they came from the West. For added effect, he also hinted that he would let the country's economic reformers resume their experiments with profits and price incentives to get the stalled economy moving again. It was a major turnabout for Novotný, but his fate had already been determined...